Michael Bosworth is a psychotic criminal who is about to go on trial however, he seduces his lawyer into helping him escape.
But as they try to make their getaway, she's left behind. He decides to wait for her to come to him, so he decides to hide at the house of the Cornells.
Now it appears that the Cornells have problems of their own. The husband and wife are separated.
And there's an FBI agent after them who is using the lawyer to lead them to Bosworth....
If this film were made today, it would have twice the budget and probably be more of a major release, even with the two leads intact.
But twenty years ago, Rourke was a falling star, and it was a whole year before a country other than England thought Hopkins was a huge star.
And not just that, the film is pretty mundane after a very exciting opening. Once we begin the second act with the house under siege, and the two alpha males at logger heads, it falls flat.
Maybe it's the fact that there is no urgency at all in the film, or maybe it's to do with the fact that this has the worse editing I have ever seen in a major motion picture. It's so bad that a character doesn't even get to finish a sentence before we move to the next scene.
And then the final fifteen minutes just throws all plausibility out of the window. I was expecting at least a fight from Rourke when he found out the gun was empty, but no, he lets Hopkins, someone older and smaller than him who is injured, drag him out of the house while he is sobbing.
It ruins the film, and everything else about it.
So all in all, the first fifteen minutes are great, and then it all goes downhill from there.
But as they try to make their getaway, she's left behind. He decides to wait for her to come to him, so he decides to hide at the house of the Cornells.
Now it appears that the Cornells have problems of their own. The husband and wife are separated.
And there's an FBI agent after them who is using the lawyer to lead them to Bosworth....
If this film were made today, it would have twice the budget and probably be more of a major release, even with the two leads intact.
But twenty years ago, Rourke was a falling star, and it was a whole year before a country other than England thought Hopkins was a huge star.
And not just that, the film is pretty mundane after a very exciting opening. Once we begin the second act with the house under siege, and the two alpha males at logger heads, it falls flat.
Maybe it's the fact that there is no urgency at all in the film, or maybe it's to do with the fact that this has the worse editing I have ever seen in a major motion picture. It's so bad that a character doesn't even get to finish a sentence before we move to the next scene.
And then the final fifteen minutes just throws all plausibility out of the window. I was expecting at least a fight from Rourke when he found out the gun was empty, but no, he lets Hopkins, someone older and smaller than him who is injured, drag him out of the house while he is sobbing.
It ruins the film, and everything else about it.
So all in all, the first fifteen minutes are great, and then it all goes downhill from there.